Will this be overkill or otherwise not recommended for someone who is new and just starting to learn?
My goal is to have something I can grow into, but initially I'd like to host a few VMs, game servers, and a have place to store content. I'd also like to host a PLEX server in the future as well but might buy a separate piece of hardware for it specifically down the road. Thanks in advance for taking the time to help a newbie!
You can quiet the fans using IPMI.. and mine pulls about 150w loaded with 10T drives and a GPU for Plex transcoding
What CPU is in it? And I guess my spinning drives don’t shut down all the way I have around 100W idle with an AMD 6750GE and a HBA for 6G and 12G SAS each.
Dual E5-2670s. (8 core, 2.6ghz). I also have a broadcom dual port 10gb LOM and an emulex dual port 8gb Fibrechannel card in it with their respective optics
WTH everyone has lower power usage with ancient equipment 🤣
I just checked and I stand corrected. 325w but I have a BUNCH of VMs going on it.
Yeah, not fair to compare with my idle numbers. It’s not running because of solar Power shenanigans